some quotes i want to remember:

"each man is haunted until his humanity awakens." -Blake

"custom will reconcile people to any atrocity." -George Bernard Shaw

"if we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities." -T.H. Huxley

"sit down before fact like a little child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing." -T.H. Huxley

and here's a quote i read in the Shambhala Sun that i really enjoyed:

"it suddenly dawned on me that i was on a bus, that outside the bus, as it moved down the street, it had turned dark, night had come on, lights were on in the buildings that lined the street; and above the buildings was the night sky, and all was right with the world. in that moment, it would seem that my consciousness had switched from its microcosmic state of personal issues and problems, to a macrocosmic awareness that inhabited a large universe--that in fact my consciousness was but a single filament of this larger whole."

those words are so beautiful to me. i love to imagine myself as a single filament of a larger whole, in fact i would say that when i truly feel those words it's not my imagination running wild, but my inner true nature exposing itself. i suppose these quotations are significant for me because they seem so different in many ways, but actually incorporate the true human sensations in their perspective. good or bad don't really make sense to these words, they exist on a plane of truth that makes no sense of human judgments. yes yes.